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" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
Growing
Poetry
Great
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" I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea. "
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" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
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" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
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" Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work. "
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" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "
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" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "
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" And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. "
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" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
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" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "
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" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "
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" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "
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Poetry
" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "
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Brother
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" There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. "
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" I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. "
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